In Freedom's Cause

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Summary: Great Historical Fiction and Adventure
Review: Freedom's Cause has a great plot and a fictional character as the protaganist. He starts off as a teen and then grows up through the time of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. The story is full of adventure, friendship, loyalty, honor, heroics, and history. Good values are presented. This book is great for anyone looking for something on Scottish history and which also is a great nove. This book is as good or better then any Nigel Tranter book I have read like The Wallace and The Bruce Trilogy

The accuracy of the historical period is excellent and I have read much on this area of Scottish history. The persons discussed, the geography talked about, and the timeline presented is very accurate. I highly reccomend this and can't wait to read another Henty.

Rating:
Summary: Great Historical Fiction and Adventure
Review: Freedom's Cause has a great plot and a fictional character as the protaganist. He starts off as a teen and then grows up through the time of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. The story is full of adventure, friendship, loyalty, honor, heroics, and history. Good values are presented. This book is great for anyone looking for something on Scottish history and which also is a great nove. This book is as good or better then any Nigel Tranter book I have read like The Wallace and The Bruce Trilogy

The accuracy of the historical period is excellent and I have read much on this area of Scottish history. The persons discussed, the geography talked about, and the timeline presented is very accurate. I highly reccomend this and can't wait to read another Henty.

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Summary: Best story of Wallace
Review: I highly recommend this book to any lovers of historical adventure stories. The story is fast paced and carries you along with Archie in his adventures. Have a good map of Scotland and England handy to look up places as you read. Great way to learn history and geography!
Becky Maxwell

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Summary: Learned more reading this than a history textbook
Review: This book is one of the most fascinating and interesting to readers who care about the past. For people who do not like history or to learn about the exciting feats accomplished by our predeseccors, I do not reccomend this book.
The story is about young Archie Forbes, a young man destined to be cheif of his clan. His father was killed when Archie was just a boy and his lands taken away by the Kerr family, nobles from nearby England. While Archie is determined to reclaim his family's lands he meets William Wallace and helps in the scottish revolution.

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Summary: Braveheart: the real story, sort of
Review: This is a very pleasureable book. Henty uses the medium of a fictional character to give us an intimate portrait of the life of William Wallace and Robert Bruce. Henty lays out the story with enough history to be accurate, but enough action to keep you awake. Although some may find it somewhat juvenille in approach, it is well written so as not to exclude all but his intended young audience. The language is somewhat archaic, but not overly difficult if one is familiar with the English language. All in all it is a fun book, and a must read for any fan of Wallace, Bruce, and the Scottish people.

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Summary: Learned more reading this than a history textbook
Review: This is the best book I have read in a long time. G.A. Henty tell the fighting between the Scottish and the English. I could not put the book down because all the battle that was going on between the two. If you like to read history then this is the one to read. I look forward to reading more of G.A. Henty books and giving you the reader (like me) a good rating.

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Summary: In Freedom's Cause
Review: This KID saves the life of William Wallace TWICE! It just so happens that Henty fits his characters into history and manages to make them do a host of fabulous deeds without it changing the course of history at all. Well, anyway, this is just children's fiction. So, in that sense it is OK. For those, say, under age 13 it might even be interesting--fascinating, for many.